Scarlet's Walk

Rolling Stone 3/5 On Scarlet’s Walk, her seventh album, Tori Amos does a misty mountain hop across a mythical America, blurring the line between the sacred and the erotic, Cherokee prayers and porn-star lap dances, New Age and Led Zeppelin.

All Music 4.5/5 If this isn't as startling as Little Earthquakes or majestic as Under the Pink, so be it. It's confident, alluring, and accomplished, luring listeners in instead of daring them to follow. And, frankly, it's a relief that she finally delivered another record like that.

Slant 2.5/5 Her sonic novel unravels languidly over 70 minutes—Amos’s compositions have never been so straightforward, her arrangements so conservative. It’s not that Scarlet’s Walk isn’t thematically rich, but most of the concept album’s 18 tracks plod along with the same midtempo pacing.

The Guardian 2/5 It is merely tastefully crafted, with lots of moping piano, chin-stroking lyrics and the occasional interlude of emotionally bereft cello.